1911 Beta

3h_s0v wrote:I don't understand how this is even a topic of debate.

3xtreme humiliation is the winningest team in the history of the game.

As far as all the other amazing teams that had good runs, they were trying hard while we were away on vacation celebrating all of our glorious victories.

RLTW 4 THE WIN AM I RITE

I remember the return of ve to retail, probably 7-8 months in. It was insane. I watched one of strife's matches on donner over and over again. It had been concluded by everyone: the garand was dead. But he came in and fucked with our heads by playing a full garand game like it was 3.1 again. It was cool.

Then they fixed the garand and the game got really interesting. Ve didn't stick around long but goddamn, what a return.

Obviously 5.0wned

and then uL|

flatout, flatout and flatout.

Jetty

/end thread

Let's all say this three times - "They have us surrounded, the poor bastards.". This saying encompasses the team that was highball.

And... I have the file from The Internets that sac posted on their website with House of Pain's song Jump Round. You all want it. They were so inspiring during their time. I remember vividly hop and zb.

Highball. Every part about their existence. All their members were characters. Jb, tellah, darkhorse, fest, judas, cyanide, chosen, burns, fieldy, panzer faust, Marshall, Beas, nick, ninja, doc, jackson, alpha male, sirrendar, etc. Somewhere I have a word document with all their names.

My most memorable win was when in late 2004, after being completely detached from the game for a long long time, I googled highball and saw they had won the 2004 CPL. I was so proud of them, I immediately came back to the game.

The best game ever, mind you. Two lil' kids, a wife, a job and a mortgage happily keep me very occupied these days. The memories are very fond, though. Lots of hours and years spent caring. Heart.

Skwirut wrote:Let's all say this three times - "They have us surrounded, the poor bastards.". This saying encompasses the team that was highball.

And... I have the file from The Internets that sac posted on their website with House of Pain's song Jump Round. You all want it. They were so inspiring during their time. I remember vividly hop and zb.

Highball. Every part about their existence. All their members were characters. Jb, tellah, darkhorse, fest, judas, cyanide, chosen, burns, fieldy, panzer faust, Marshall, Beas, nick, ninja, doc, jackson, alpha male, sirrendar, etc. Somewhere I have a word document with all their names.

My most memorable win was when in late 2004, after being completely detached from the game for a long long time, I googled highball and saw they had won the 2004 CPL. I was so proud of them, I immediately came back to the game.

The best game ever, mind you. Two lil' kids, a wife, a job and a mortgage happily keep me very occupied these days. The memories are very fond, though. Lots of hours and years spent caring. Heart.

tears bro, tears...

Ben Skwirut, one of my favorite people of all time in DoD. Ronny DR is up there too.

Schmiggs wrote:Ben Skwirut, one of my favorite people of all time in DoD. Ronny DR is up there too.

not me? removed from steam fl

Unsung Heroes.

haps

Sup

I think that posts have already been made that pretty much sum up this topic.

Something that hasn't somehow been brought up though, most dominant player ever. I think we can all agree that Mantis takes this title.

lol, mantis is probably the most intimidating player as well. josh brown doesn't have shit on mantis...

In america i think gamewyze

In europe i would say TWR - the white rose

scorch- wrote:when you're getting shot in the back by habib in the dumbest/best corner in the universe, you don't have a choice. the screamo just happens.

one word: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

you should hear HIM in vent....sigh

grattattacK wrote:I remember the return of ve to retail, probably 7-8 months in. It was insane. I watched one of strife's matches on donner over and over again. It had been concluded by everyone: the garand was dead. But he came in and fucked with our heads by playing a full garand game like it was 3.1 again. It was cool.

Then they fixed the garand and the game got really interesting. Ve didn't stick around long but goddamn, what a return.

Believe it or not, I remember watching that strife demo a long time ago. A really long time ago.

Wow, can't believe 1911 is still around.

Whoever is responsible for bringing the site back, thank you, and if escher is still around, what up!

Very good teams always have a certain mystique about them. Back when I was playing |101st| were the shit, everybody wanted to join them, and people were afraid to play against them. When I was on ve, our team oozed confidence, we knew we could take on anybody and we legitimately believed we were the best in the world, however delusional/realistic we were actually being. And often times we simply were the best, people didn't even want to scrim us because they knew they'd get their asses handed to them. And +1 to whoever said we were douchebags, in retrospect we did treat people like dbags sometimes, but the amount of dick riding on mirc was incredible.

Man good times.

find sgt pepper

slimz wrote:When I was on ve, our team oozed confidence, we knew we could take on anybody and we legitimately believed we were the best in the world, however delusional/realistic we were actually being. And often times we simply were the best, people didn't even want to scrim us because they knew they'd get their asses handed to them.

Yeah I back in the day it was pretty unanimous that ve was unbeatable.

Poop-ship, bsoul, escher, who else... there was vizio but I know he got caught cheating.

You guys were really dominant.

nig

Rob wrote:

slimz wrote:When I was on ve, our team oozed confidence, we knew we could take on anybody and we legitimately believed we were the best in the world, however delusional/realistic we were actually being. And often times we simply were the best, people didn't even want to scrim us because they knew they'd get their asses handed to them.

Yeah I back in the day it was pretty unanimous that ve was unbeatable.

Poop-ship, bsoul, escher, who else... there was vizio but I know he got caught cheating.

You guys were really dominant.

Actually we beat ve (nude) for the ugs invite championship and in regular season. They did beat us for the cal - i championship that same season. We shortly died after.

Nig was the original leader, and from what I remember he founded ve as well.

Nig was a solid team leader and an overall great guy. He was the sort of level headed, no-nonsense, quiet type. I think this was mostly attributable to the fact that he was in his late 20's or early 30's at the time so he wasn't the typical pre-pubescent, shit talking, living in mother's basement nerdy teenager (though I can't say for fact that Nig didn't live in this mother's basement .)

Poopship, from what I recall, was Nig's friend in real life, and also was a great, funny guy. Great, great player as well. Poopship and Nig would come on to vent, or teamspeak or whatever we used back then and we'd play during late nights plastered as all hell and we'd have drunken conversations together, talking random shit and having a good time.

Tkz was also an original member. Liked to talk a lot, but backed his talking with skill. Again, funny guy but his personality could get a bit abrasive at times. I think he eventually took over as the leader of ve, but I was already transitioning out of the game when that was happening. My best memory of tkz is playing these ridiculous pub sessions on Anzio where both of us would just kar whore and our scores would literally be like 82-6 and 79-3 respectively, without exaggeration. This was in the day when the kar was so beastly, and of course it was some random pub, but I remember thinking, "we aren't too bad at this game are we? "

Bsoul was probably my best mate on the team. We used to call him Halfrican for being, well, half African. I think he was our first MG player, and a hell of player too. I don't think he stuck around too long but a great guy.

Dune was a young Canadian kid who was a good, technical player. On his day he could carry the team with the light rifle.

Escher was part of the team for a bit and also a great guy. To speak completely objectively, his dod skills probably fell short of ve's standard, however he was such an instrumental member of the dod community, particularly with the creation of 1911, and I could argue that he had as much to do with ve's rise in popularity in the community as ve's overall skill level did.

Some of the teams we respected at the time were |101st|, Nt-, |NUDE|. For whatever reason I don't recall hb- being that dominant at the time, maybe they became more dominant after I left the game. And apparently there have been great teams since like x6, but obviously I cannot speak for them.

I'm glad to see that the dod community is still alive and well. Since quitting the game I've gone on to college, and am now attending law school. However I try to sneak dod sessions in here and there.

Good times.

There were two iterations of ve I think. The original, then the one strife was on I believe. I think you're referring to the second one josh. Just a guess though, my memory is fuzzy.

Rob wrote:There were two iterations of ve I think. The original, then the one strife was on I believe. I think you're referring to the second one josh. Just a guess though, my memory is fuzzy.

You are correct in that there were 2 versions of ve, however when nude was around it was the original ve with dune,tkz,poopship,slimz,nig and I wanna say plex? One version of ve was 3.1 while the other was after. I believe the second go round the roster was something like tkz, plex, holeman, tofu, max nig/poopship.

Jb_ wrote:You are correct in that there were 2 versions of ve, however when nude was around it was the original ve with dune,tkz,poopship,slimz,nig and I wanna say plex? One version of ve was 3.1 while the other was after. I believe the second go round the roster was something like tkz, plex, holeman, tofu, max nig/poopship.

Yeah, the first ve (betas) was nig, poop-ship, tkz, dune, sgt pepper, bsoul, alcatraz, dawg etc. They added strife, plex, and ub3r in late 3.1 when 101st and iLan died.

The second coming (after Retail) was nig/poop/tkz + holeman and tofu (from dead Nt). If I remember right, by the time I came back post 1.1 (Nov 2004) those guys weren't playing anymore.

Come to think of it, Retail DoD did kill off a lot of good players.

Lol, threads like these make me think that 1911 needs a wiki.

Sears wrote:

Jb_ wrote:You are correct in that there were 2 versions of ve, however when nude was around it was the original ve with dune,tkz,poopship,slimz,nig and I wanna say plex? One version of ve was 3.1 while the other was after. I believe the second go round the roster was something like tkz, plex, holeman, tofu, max nig/poopship.

Yeah, the first ve (betas) was nig, poop-ship, tkz, dune, sgt pepper, bsoul, alcatraz, dawg etc. They added strife, plex, and ub3r in late 3.1 when 101st and iLan died.

The second coming (after Retail) was nig/poop/tkz + holeman and tofu (from dead Nt). If I remember right, by the time I came back post 1.1 (Nov 2004) those guys weren't playing anymore.

Come to think of it, Retail DoD did kill off a lot of good players.

Lol, threads like these make me think that 1911 needs a wiki.

If dune = luke, i'm pretty sure he played with max on ve.

http://web.archive.org/web/200212091549 ... oster.html

Original-ish ve roster

fun thread

i am the most dominant clan ever

face. plant.

As a mediocre player in this game for many years, the team that made me feel the worst about my own abilities was ve. They kicked the shit out of any team ive ever been on. x6 was probably as equally or close to as dominant

RoNiX wrote:face. plant.

Hey Gary

Howdy!

Gary, do you still play WOW or are you a pro disc golfer now?

i haven't played wow for well over a year. it became more of a winter activity =)

i am not a pro disc golfer just yet. the next thing i buy will be a practice basket so i can get my putting on par with the rest of my game.

how have you guys been?

RoNiX wrote:i haven't played wow for well over a year. it became more of a winter activity =)

i am not a pro disc golfer just yet. the next thing i buy will be a practice basket so i can get my putting on par with the rest of my game.

how have you guys been?

You're being called to cBerry. Come back to DoD.

Sears wrote:

Jb_ wrote:You are correct in that there were 2 versions of ve, however when nude was around it was the original ve with dune,tkz,poopship,slimz,nig and I wanna say plex? One version of ve was 3.1 while the other was after. I believe the second go round the roster was something like tkz, plex, holeman, tofu, max nig/poopship.

Yeah, the first ve (betas) was nig, poop-ship, tkz, dune, sgt pepper, bsoul, alcatraz, dawg etc. They added strife, plex, and ub3r in late 3.1 when 101st and iLan died.

The first ve also had (if i remember correctly) myself, cope (played as R3B3L at the time), BMS and chewiealf i believe.

SAC was the most dominate team, I think alot of people leave them out because they were so oldschool. However, they destroyed everyone, and left you in awe as they would bunny hop by at 90mph and rock your helmet off with the garand.

101st was always good, but even when they were at the top, I never felt them to be dominate, they were always pretty equal with the top 4 at their peak...

Man I miss playing... I was with KiS, then when things got more popular I was with Cosa. Eventually as my time dwindled I played with 38th in main for fun.

sp3c

raz0r wrote:SAC was the most dominate team, I think alot of people leave them out because they were so oldschool. However, they destroyed everyone, and left you in awe as they would bunny hop by at 90mph and rock your helmet off with the garand.

SAC was a dominate team, but they only played DoD for about a year at the very beginning (01-02). They were unstoppable those first two seasons of STA, but there wasn't really a whole lot of other competition besides 101st, and even they hadn't grown into their own yet. But, 1.3b DoD was a totally different game than the late betas even, let alone post-retail. It was default half-life deathmatch with some kind of ww2 looking skins and models. That's why SAC was so good, they were a legit quake team that had been playing that style of game for years. SAC never played in CAL, and called it quits to go back to quake after beta 2.0 was released. So, while you have to mention them in the historical discussion, you can't give them the distinction of the "most dominant" DoD clan overall.

raz0r wrote:101st was always good, but even when they were at the top, I never felt them to be dominate, they were always pretty equal with the top 4 at their peak...

101st's legacy suffers for a lot of the same reasons that SAC's does. The game just wasn't very mature when they were at their peak. People also forget that 101st started as a PUB CLAN, but adapted to becoming a competitive team as the competitive community matured. They picked up were SAC left off after they left the game, but they were really only "dominant" in the short period between when Beta 2.0 and Beta 3.0. By the time 101st was to the point where they had the opportunity to dominate for a long period of time, they had to face competition from teams like Nt, ve, NUDE, hb, etc. And they ultimately couldn't get a leg up to really dominate the 3.1b era over the rest of those teams. As a result the 3.1b era goes to ve`, with NUDE, Nt, hb, and 101st just behind them.

I think that's what made the 3.1b era so much fun, both to play and to watch as a part of the community. There were so many good teams at the very top: 101st, Nt, ve, hb, NUDE, iLan, etc., but also a group of really strong second-tier invite teams that could hang with any of the 1st-tier teams on a good day (63rd, devil, 5.o, etc).

Post-retail, the game was in large part dominated by mostly the same groups of players comprising the same 10 or so teams for the last 5-6 years of competitive DoD. And that's why x6/coL win the "most dominant" clan in DoD history argument by default. They were a full step above the rest of the teams during the peak competitive years of the game. It's too bad that so many of those great players from 3.1 didn't keep playing the game, as the parity of skill at the invite level really suffered post-retail.

no but srsly, The way I see it is in three eras (I'm not counting beta because that was an entirely different game)

1) up to and including Summer CPL 2005:
GW/x6. Even though veracity put together a very dominant season (possibly 2? I can't remember) of CAL-i, they really dropped the ball on LAN. coL was also very good but kind of a clear cut 2nd, as the tournament showed.

2) Between CPL 2005 and WSVG 2006:
coL. With the majority of the x6 guys not competing, and the only one who was on their squad, it easily solidified them as the most dominant. They wrecked everyone online (except for hsb in scrims, of course), and won WSVG. PK and rS were both very good at this time too, but couldn't really take a decisive win over coL from what I remember.

3) Post WSVG 2006 and the rapid decline in popularity:
I don't know anything about online play since 2006, but I went to a decent amount of LANs. I think the thunder/jetty guys with jaggon and ryanemo were clearly head and shoulders above the rest of the guys we played against at those tournaments. I'm not sure if these guys were the best online too, but it seems as if there's always a team or two of guys that either don't show up to LANs or don't do well at them. I always wondered how their style would have matched up against me back when my aim/reactions weren't awful and I played fps games on a daily or almost daily basis.

I ran 20ID during the sac era, twas me and Darkhorse (we both later joined hb and formed the first iteration of deadboLT together). When we were in 20ID we kept it pretty close playing 101st and qor, sac was the only team that we didn't stand much of a chance against. The varied rosters of deadbolt usually started strong and fell apart due to inactivity or something. we were never what one would call anywhere near top of invite, but i like to think we were pretty decent most of the time.

I do miss darkhorse( or bryan), spent alot of time playing this game with him.


anyways, yah sac was by far the most dominant team if you go solely by win to loss ratio. They never lost, not once in the time they played. It was shorter than most others but still, it was ridiculous.

<3 you scotty for being the first person in the thread to even give our any team credit. I felt like the run we went on for about 4 or so years there was pretty crazy and warranted at least a couple mentions on here, we won every season/lan we competed in other than ONE cevo season when our roster was totally gutted and I just basically kept the team alive with ryan for the sake of playing. those days are clearly a year or so behind us now though. gg tonight btw. shit could have gone either way.

Thanks for keeping the site alive. I quit before retail due to shadowbane. Played with MaX, plex, tkz, vArmint, strife in beta to name a few. Nude josh was my biggest rival. Yeah I sent him demos then he shut up.

betaplayer wrote:Thanks for keeping the site alive. I quit before retail due to shadowbane. Played with MaX, plex, tkz, vArmint, strife in beta to name a few. Nude josh was my biggest rival. Yeah I sent him demos then he shut up.

If you're who I think you are then I believe you were caught cheating? Yes for you younger doders people had to actually cheat to compete with my greatness.

Flakk88 in 2003. Most dominant lan team the game has ever seen.

lasik how'd competitive cs:s work out for ya?